Web Exclusive: Treatments for Childhood Cancer

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CURESummer 2008
Volume 7
Issue 2

Resources for identifying and understanding treatments for childhood cancer.

In 2005, the National Academy of Sciences published Making Better Drugs for Children With Cancer, a report on the successes and ongoing challenges in treating childhood cancer.

Included in the report is a list of commonly used agents to treat childhood cancers as well as a variety of other details related to the research and development of new cancer treatments for children. The report can be read in full for free at books.nap.edu.

Articles in this issue
On a Roll
Detection Tools
Federal Laws Against Employer Discrimination
Understanding Hereditary Cancer
A Difficult Inheritance
Healing Escapes
Web Exclusive: Another Son
Web Exclusive: Saving Lives
Breaking News from ASCO
A Better Way to the Brain
The Diagnosis Dilemma
Forward Motion
No Child Left Behind
Good Behavior
The Guilt Factor
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